Bobby Dazzler Knits: 2024

It's been a while, and in a month where I don't seem to be able to settle on anything, it's no surprise that I have started and not finished several projects.

Mr B wanted another waist coat. So I found a pattern in a magazine on 'readly' and away we go in this broken rib, shawl collar piece (which I am sure he will never wear, but does keep me occupied). The original uses double double knit which seemed like too much faff when I can just get a lovely cotton aran, slightly tweedy and nothing like that dreadful melange which the designer used.

Not so long ago, I tried a chevron scarf pattern, but just couldn't make the pattern work.

It was based on this scarf. Except I knit (knitted, knat?) the return row instead of pattern (patterned, patterning?) it, so the zig-zags are a bit less pointy.

I am a firm believer that sometimes a fabric, or pattern, or yarn, just doesn't want to become what you want it to become. At this point you can continue fighting, making mistakes, pulling down, tearing seams, and re-knitting or take the moral high ground, admit deafeat and move on.

Anyway, the red scarf was frogged and then I found this lovely bamboo mix sock yarn and thought it might work well with this pattern (I've lost the ball band so I can't tell you what it is, but I do know it wasn't cheap) and it feels so much softer and nicer to work with.

I also felt that Bobby Dazzler Knits may be due a revival; albeit on a smaller (much smaller) scale.

So I have picked up tiny needles, 4 ply yarn and a tiny baby pattern for an inconceivably cute and imperceptably perfect project. Which can be found here at archive.org.

The archive really is another free resource which you should check out if you get a spare moment.

So ends an indecisive but vaguely productive month. Roll on summer.